ChatGPT rates the song I made YouTube video by FatherPhi

Proof that ChatGPT is sycophantic horseshite.
www.youtube.com/shorts/JqvDL...

How do developers define their worth when code is written by AI? christianheilmann.com/2026/04/21/h...

Today a duck landed on my balcony (3rd floor, North Berlin), honked once and left 5 minutes later.

As Google Meet asks me every single time if I want to create a new cool AI background, here are my latest ones. No alt but here are the prompts:
"Dinosaurs dancing in a meadow"
"Capybara pool party"
"Axolotl poker game"
Keeping things professional, I do…

Accent Converter for YouTube by Krisp YouTube video by Krisp

A live accent converter for YouTube. Impressive, but also making it less personal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwyX...

Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.

6 million fake GitHub stars across 18,617 repositories costing between $0.03 to $0.85 each.
awesomeagents.ai/news/github-...

I just encountered a <br aria-hidden="true"> in generated code and I think I need a break…

TIL that handbrake has a CLI and you can choose presets to batch convert videos in a folder:

handbrakeCLI --preset "Very Fast 576p25" -i "BigVideo.mp4" -o "SmallerVideo.mp4"

The Google app for desktop Explore new ways to search. Download the Google app for desktop to use Lens, get AI-powered responses faster, search across your computer and Google Drive, and more with a simple keyboard shortcut.

Google only releasing an App bringing the Android mobile features of Lens etc… to desktop only releasing on Windows is baffling… I guess Preview does most?
search.google/google-app/d...

Users lose $9.5 million to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store After a fake version of the Ledger cryptocurrency wallet app made it onto the normally highly curated Apple App store, customers lost $9.5 million dollars to the malicious product. Believing it was a ...

APP SToRES are SUpeRIOR TO tHE Web As tHEY BRiNG MOrE SEcuritY THROuGH vEtTIng

Users lose $9.5 million to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store www.web3isgoinggreat.com?id=fake-ledg...

GitHub Stacked PRs Break large changes into small, reviewable, stacked pull requests with first-class GitHub support.

Stacked PRs, Native in GitHub github.github.com/gh-stack/
This is excellent when you get massive PRs

The Boys' final season starting strong. I lost it at the manfluencing podcast of the Deep and Black Noir with the soundboard…

What did Yoda say the first time he saw himself in 4K?

HDMI

Too much internal communication to follow up is called a Slack Overflow.

Yesterday's recording of Coffee with developers had a special guest and she was pretty judgmental…https://coffeewithdevelopers.buzzsprout.com/

One of my favourite words in German is "Kokolores" which means nonsense, and it goes back to the time when Cocaine was legal and people talked bollocks after having too much of it.

It works, doesn't it?

just the font style64.org/c64-truetype

Visual Studio Code using the Commodore 64 font.

Finally got my VS Code set up for peak efficiency with the right font.

Interesting new W3C working draft on pseudo classes for CSS to control animated images like GIF
CSS Image Animation Module Level 1 www.w3.org/TR/2026/WD-c...

DevRel Meetup Berlin - April 2026, Wed, Apr 8, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup Hey friends! 👋 Developer Relations is one of those rare disciplines where you're part engineer, part storyteller, part community builder. And it rarely comes with a playb

Berlin folk! I will be later on at the DevRel Meetup in the Pub (the sacrifices we make…) so if you want to chat about anything DevRel and WeAreDevelopers in detail, come along and say hi!
meetup.com/berlin-devel...

It's astounding how many "fastest growing AI conference"s there are running in parallel… By which metric? Where is the comparison? Why is this a good thing?

Nah, not hangry anymore, had a lovely last supper

You nailed it

The good thing about business on Easter is that prophets are rising.

@danielcranney.bsky.social that's one hell of a tour

Double ear scratches are the best.

DevRel Meetup Berlin - April 2026, Wed, Apr 8, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup Hey friends! 👋 Developer Relations is one of those rare disciplines where you're part engineer, part storyteller, part community builder. And it rarely comes with a playb

Hey 👋 Do you happen to be in Berlin on Wed, Apr 8?

I'm going up the developer relations meetup, in case you want to chat about taking part in anything WeAreDevelopers related (coming on the live show, podcast, or moderating at our events)

www.meetup.com/berlin-devel...

Free of charge...

In Germany, you can recycle dead batteries in any supermarket. Free of charge.